@rmillner , yes.  Otherwise, you have to load environment variables for the gears to get app names (unless we build a cache for that).  So unless git_repos_count is actually being used for something important, which I can't find anywhere in the core code, then I'm suggesting we get rid of it.  I commented out the lines rather than removing them simply because I don't know if someone will want to resurrect this at some point when it can be done more quickly.